finding does not allow for arms to be provided to the rebels at this time, but it paves the way for the president to order that support. >> he's not ruling something in or out in term of lethal assistance to the opposition. >> reporter: so little is known about the rebels. there are serious questions about who they are. >> we have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al qaeda, hezbollah. we've seen different thing. >> reporter: that's one of president obama's concerns. what will arming these rebels ultimately mean in the long term while in libya fighting continues? larry jacobs, abc news. there are reports this morning that cia agents are in libya to provide intelligence and also make contacts with rebel leaders. the cia reportedly helped rescue one of the crew members aboard that f-15 that went down in libya last week. in a statement last night the white house, though, refused to comment on intelligence matters. president obama has unveiled an ambitious new plan for energy independence. he would like to cut our oil imports by one-third in the next

15 years. but who stands to gain from that? our brian ross investigates. >> reporter: with great fanfare from the president -- dmr. >> hello, everybody. >> reporter: federal government guarante guaranteed$535 million loan to this california sole lar panel company which promised to create 1,000 new jobs. >> it's here that companies like selendra are leading the way. >> reporter: but despite the huge government support the company closed a factory and laid off workers. >> i would. it's already a locks for taxpayers. >> reporter: the company says it's on the right track. investigates are asking if connections to the white house helped them get this big loan. one backer is a major obama fund-raiser. they found officials were favoring some companies and disadvantaging others. >> we don't know whether they've issued the loans to the best

credit risks and, therefore, we don't know how the public's money is being protected. >> reporter: an abc news investigation with the center for public integrity found a number of other elite fund-raisers for the president have also benefitted hugely from the energy loan program. >> mr. steve wesley -- >> reporter: mr. notably, steve wesley of california, the president's guest. four companies tied to wesley have secured over $500 billion in loans and grants and the white house has had him appointed to a special advisory board. >> wesley shuz not have been put on that board, no question about that. >> reporter: wesley, in fact, boasts of his connections to the obama administration. his website says they are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the billions in loans. it was not something he wanted to talk about with abc news. in addition to the cold shoulder from mr. westly, the white house

told us, we had it all wrong. politics plays no role in who gets the billions of dollars in coveted loans for green energy company start-ups. it's all about merit. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> following the money. in other news now, at least one person is dead after an apparent gang shooting. gunfire broke out as a group of men watched their girlfriends play a powder puff football game in houston. it was not a school-sanctioned activity. the shooting took place in late afternoon after classes were out. we have adramatic rescue to show you from malibu, california. the l.a. county sheriff's shafb's department brought out the chopper after a woman fell 30 feet down in the canyon. they pulled her out, flew her to a drama center. pretty incredible video as you watch her being rescued. >> wow. florida is bracing for another wet and wild day after a

line of storms whipped up winds as high as 85 miles an hour there. on top of that, one tornado was reported yesterday as torrential downpours and powerful winds tore through the central part of the state, toppling trees and power lines, too. it got so bad there, a small plane actually flipped over at the airport there in orlando. >> we have just had wild weather everywhere. >> it is a long, long tough winter. >> indeed. taking a look at your weather. it rainy from miami up to the coast to boston. light snow in western pennsylvania moving later to upstate new york and new england. showers around memphis and little rock. snow from idaho to nebraska. flooding downpours in seattle, portland and the cascades. >> 60s in boise, billings and salt lake city. 47, chicago. 54 in kansas city. a mild 66 in new orleans. 87 in miami. 48 here in the big apple. 50 in beantown. well, it may be a purr-fect ending to a story we told you about last week.

you might remember smokey. >> that got so much attention for her ultraloud purr she's poised to pounce on a world record. you may remember her because the volume of her purrs had been compared to a lawn mower and a 747. >> technically deafening, really. even the owner says it gets annoying. >> that's a mighty cat. >> they just recorded the purr at 73 decibels, 16 times louder than your average cat. the recording has been submitted to the guinness book and we'll find out if smokey's hinote will hit the record book. >> that would get on your nerves a little. >> i like cats. maybe a little. >> we'll send smokey to your house.

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beautiful shots there much a sleepy city, for the most part. not fb's sleeping. >> we're up. >> that's right. we first told you about this controversial new doll earlier this week. a baby doll little girls can use to pretend to breast feed. >> the breast milk baby. the company that makes it says it fosters nurturing. some parents don't like it. they say it's too much too soon. andrea canning with more. >> reporter: it's the controversial video that shows a 6-year-old girl attaching a doll to her chest to imitate breast feeding brought to you by the maker of the new breast milk baby. this spring it's hitting store shelves here in the u.s. the doll even sucks and cries and is beg your pardurped by th training. anyone here going to buy it. >> i don't think so. >> reporter: these parents of

these little girls were divided as to whether they thought the concept was good. do you think little girls should be bred feeding dolls? >> not really. i probably would look at other dolls, though, before i would like at this one for her. >> reporter: your take on it? >> we've got another baby due in june. and i think it's going to be a really neat way for my daughter grace to identify and connect with mom. it's an interesting concept. >> reporter: as for our young panelists, they said they like the doll. what's your favorite part of the dolly? >> breast feed. >> reporter: breast feeding? >> yes. >> reporter: did you watch your little brother get breast fed by your mommy? >> yes. >> reporter: the company that creates breast milk baby has come under extreme fire by outraged parents. >> people have called us pedophiles, perverts, saying we're endangering innocence of little girls. >> reporter: a spokesperson says the doll teaches young girls about nurturing skills they need in the future. >> a little girl that plays with

breast feed baby now will think it's the normal way to feed a baby. >> reporter: there's no doubt about it. the doll is polarizing parents and viewers. one viewer wrote on our facebook pol, now that underage sex and pregnants are reaching shocking proportions, let's have a doll which encouraging young children to get pregnant. no asking, would you create a toy that simulated labor pains that teaches a 6-year-old how to handle the birthing process? one mom was all for it. if the breast feeding doll does take off, just imagine the potential it has for increasing the popularity of breast feeding. as for concern, the doll could negatively influence a child, this child psychologist says parents have nothing to worry about. >> i don't think it's sex you'llizing any more than a little boy standing next to his father shaving and putting on shaving cream. the only way in my opinion harm could be done with this doll is if you beat the kid over the head with the doll.

>> it is controversial, that's for sure. we were saying it's a lot of dolls out there for boys, even, a g.i. joe doll that comes with a machine gun. what's so terrible about this? but then again, the blogs are very vocal, pro and against this. >> a lot of folks, a lot to say. this was created in spain. it's a huge hit there as well as in europe. there are some stores here in the u.s. that are sold out of these things. they're becoming a hit, whether you love them or hate them. >> side note, 77% of americans breast feed until 5 months and then they wrap it up because it's time consuming. the nonprofit company challenging microsoft online. >> we'll check out the new version of the firefox web browser.

welcome back. it wasn't too long ago nearly everyone that logged onto the

internet got there through microsoft explorer and then other web browsers started muscling in. >> today mozilla firefox has soared to second place and out with version number four. daniel sieberg decided it was time to tech them out. >> reporter: who are the folks at mozilla? how many people? where are they based? how does mozilla make any money? >> our only shareholders are nonprofit. revenue is not our motivating factor. mozilla employs 300, 400 people. we have 50,000 people run our nightly build to get us early feedback on anything that can be broken before it reaches our beta audience or before it reaches 400 million users. we make enough money to make the project succeed and we lean on that community very hard because we couldn't succeed without them. we're not like most software companies that way. >> reporter: the market shaf for firefox is second only to internet explorer and far ahead of google and apple browsers.

not too bad for a browser no one heard of a couple years ago. >> 2004 firefox one came out. we had a bunch of people installing it on their own machine because they thought it was a better product. then installing it on their friend's machines and family machines and it started to snow ball. >> reporter: what's the biggest difference they'll notice? >> it's blazing fast. web pages will load faster if you 30 tabs, 500 tabs and we've cleaned up the interface a lot. >> reporter: they also say they want to make the browser feel more control over being tracked by advertisers and other companies. talk to me about the do not track. >> with firefox four don't track feature we've said, okay, we want our users to be able to express an intent. we want them to say, i understand ads are used to support websites, but don't track my browsing across sites. i'm not comfortable with it. i want to opt out. a lot of interest from content

sites saying we're interested, we want to understand what it would mean to comply with do not track. we want to understand our privacy policies. >> reporter: on days when firefox 4 doesn't do what you want, apparently there are real people on the other end. do people actually read those reports? everyone wonders if those get read. >> yeah, absolutely. we have weekly meetings we look at all crashes, find new ones that might appear. >> reporter: firefox 4 is available for download nows and offers lots of ways to customize your online experience. the browser wars continue. google's chrome 10, lots of versions of apple safari. ultimately, though, it adds up to more choice for the consumer. rob and peggy, back to you. >> interesting stuff there. as firefox, they want to use the name phoenix at first, then they went with firebird, a play on phoenix, that name was taken and

they suddenly settled on firefox. evolution of the names. >> more and more popular all the time. coming up, new marketing ploy from the lead singer of kiss. want one of a kind eyes?

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the condom itself. they've taken it to a whole new level. it's coming out in april of -- next month, april 2011, this year. his extended tongue, he's known for that tongue, runs down the -- >> you are got to be kidding. >> i just want to put it out there. gene simons condom. >> in some situations i imagine that would stop things cold. that's all i'm saying. now, we're going to talk about some bats in georgia, a much safer story. this whole infestation of bats, one house if georgia that is on the market. well, bats are protected, by the way. if you have bats in your house, you can't just call the exterminator. >> why? i don't get that. >> turns out there were 10 to 20,000 bats living in this cute yellow house in georgia. this company came in to assess the situation. it was condemned. tom campbell says, quote, the odor in the summer is so

horrible. bats can get in the size of a quarter and live there. if you want your house checked for bats, you should do that and you can seal your house. >> who was living in there? the munsters? it's on the market and the realtor says they have an interested buyer. >> good luck with that. butler, one of the surprise teams in the final four. mascot, blue, name of the english bulldog, mascot for the team. and blue too is living a good life. travel to houston, a chartered southwest flight, his own seat, his own security detail, and before he gets on the plane he's going to a dog spa in indianapolis for a hair, wash, dry, get his hair done and a spritz of doggy cologne. >> those are my peeps. now, the opposite of the bat house. the most expensive house, $100

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this morning on "world news now" -- high school scare. fatal gunshots fired at an athletic field in houston. >> at least one person killed. more are injured during an after-school powder puff football game. it's thursday, march 31st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good morning, everyone. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm peggy bunker. houston police are sorting out what happened last night and believe some involved in this on campus ordeal were not student. we'll get the laisest on that. of course, very shocking. >> frightening scene, for sure. that shooting in houston took place just hours after gun

control advocates, including president reagan's press secretary, pushed their calls on capitol hill on a very important anniversary. 30 years since that assassination attempt against president reagan. >> incredible to see all that time go by. coming up a bit later, two top stories. the ipad's competitors. we'll compare tablet computers hitting the market and see which ones have an edge. first, we want to get to that violence at houston high school. one victim who was not a student died in the gunfire. >> several others were rushed to the hospital in all of this. it all unfolded during a late afternoon powder puff football game. >> reporter: police officers and crime scene tape quickly replaced students and athletic equipment at the field at worthing high school. troy was playing baseball, girls were playing powder puff football. there were gunshots and then chaos. >> too many people and i couldn't tell who had the gun. >> reporter: according to eyewitnesss, several young men

were among those in the bleachers cheering for their girlfriends when a car full of whom police believe were gang members drove onto the field. there was a fist fight that seemed to be over, even though everyone had a bad feeling. >> we knew something was up because the boy, he was about to drop the gun, but he picked it up and so he walked onto the field. so, we leaving. before we even got off, people was like, they already started shooting. >> reporter: a total of four people were shot, one died at the hospital. the shooters took off. a gold ford taurus with blood on the doors was stopped in an apartment complex about five miles away. police took at least one man into custody there. meantime, two others were gunshot wounds showed up at a separate hospital, possibly suspects, police say, wounded by mystery shooter also in the bleachers at the school. >> they just said this mystery guy showed up while they were firing -- while the gang bangers were firing into the crowd, another man appeared out of nowhere, produced a pistol and fired in the direction of the ford. >> reporter: police are talking to the two men at the hospital,

they would also like to talk to that mystery man. they believe the shooters were from a rival high school. they're also hearing they may not be student at all. meantime, residents tell us there are often gang fights and gang shootouts in this area. in houston, jessica willie for abc news. >> well, as we mentioned, that incident in houston took place on the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt on former president reagan. >> now, that's the event that gavel nized a major gun control campaign headed by mr. reagan's former press secretary. john hendren is in washington with more. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, rob and peggy. gun control is an issue that makes a periodic appearance on capitol hill, gets debated and then goes nowhere. but after the tucson massacre, gun control advocates think they have their best chance in years. they were the shots that nearly assassinated a president. >> back to the white house. back to the white house. rawhide is okay. >> reporter: americans didn't know it, but that attempt nearly

succeeded. one bullet nearly penetrating ronald reagan's heart. on the 30th anniversary of that day, his press secretary, james brady, remains paralyzed but he's anything but inactive on capitol hill and at the white house. >> i used to be a track runner. no more. but i'm not going to run away from this. >> reporter: brady spent the anniversary of the shooting asking members of congress to pass a new gun control bill, banning high-capacity magazines holding more than ten bullets, like the one used in the tucson massacre that killed six and wounded 13, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> how could you look yourself in the mirror and say, i believe in large capacity magazines, for god sake? >> reporter: the national rifle association says it can. the group is backed by most republicans, some democrats and many gun owners who say the constitution forbids the ban. >> i don't stand for any political action that would strip me of any of my rights. >> reporter: three decades later

that's an argument james brady says he's paid dearly to win. since they were injured federal laws have changed little. in that time the brady campaign to end gun violence says 2.8 million people have been shot in the united states. a million of them killed. and more than 200,000 of them since that january 8th shooting in tucson. >> thanks so much. now to the latest in libya. there's been a major defection by one of gadhafi's top aides. libya's foreign minister has arrived in london after resigning his post. libyan government spokesperson denied the foreign minister has defected saying he was in london on a diplomatic mission. but there's better news for gadhafi on the battlefield. rebels retreated from the front line between the key libyan oil port of ras lanuf and the town of brega. opposition fighters came under heavy gunfire from ground forces loyal to the government. meanwhile, now more radiation from japan has been detected right here in the u.s. this time it's very low levels of radiation found in milk in washington state. >> hard to believe.

but the levels are way too low to cause concern, from what we're hearing. in japan itself, progress at that crippled nuclear plant is hard to come by. t.j. winick has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, rob and peggy. if you're having a hard time figuring out how the recovery operation is going in japan at that nuclear power plant, you're not alone. day after day, heart break in japan's tsunami-ravaged northeast. this week yet another mass burial. this no denying the scope of this country's tredy. but at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, the threat appears to change day to day. even hour to hour. >> workers can only go in for 30 minutes, getting a fuel year's dose of radiation. this is really bad. >> reporter: that assessment was just one week ago. we were told plant workers were essentially engaged in a suicide mission. one writing in an e-mail, if we're in hell now, all we can do is crawl up toward heaven. then we hear from american dr. robert gale, who spent years

working in chernobyl and now in japan. this is his take on the workers. >> i don't think that they are at extraordinary risk unless something really goes wrong. >> reporter: so, why the mixed messages? >> until about a week ago, they didn't even have electricity there, which meant they were truly in the dark. that is, they had no lights, they had no instrumentation. >> reporter: after all, last week there was good news. power to the cooling pumps had been restored, radiation levels were falling. >> the situation in general continues to further stabilize, although there are many hurdles that remain. >> reporter: one thing most experts can agree on, the land and water inside the exclusion zone of 12 1/2 miles around the plant could take years to recover. peggy and rob? >> amazing pendulum of news. it seems like a little good news, a lot of bad, vice versa. it's hard to keep track of it all. >> it's very hard when we hear about the radiation and at the same time governments saying, it's fine, don't worry about it, it's safe levels. later on you hear it wasn't so

safe. tough situation. a look at your wednesday weather -- i'm sorry, thursday weather. >> let's get going. >> yeah. stormy in florida with gusty winds, downpours, large hail and even a chance of tornadoes. rain all the way up to here in new york. snow in western pennsylvania, moving later into new england. and also some snow from the northern rockies into the dakotas and heavy rain in the pacific northwest. >> sure hope that rain doesn't keep you from going on your vacation, rob. >> i'm praying. >> 77 in sacramento. mostly 40s from fargo to indianapolis. 50 in boston. 48 here in new york. and 58 in atlanta. well, this little piggy did not go to the market, stay home or even have roast beef. instead, it went hog wild. >> hog wild. >> with a few of its friends. five pigs were taken into custody -- you don't get to say that every day. >> no, you don't. >> five pigs were taken into custody after they stalled traffic in durham, north carolina. the pigs run amuck on a busy interstate on the morning rush

hour until police and animal control rounded them up. >> police believe the pigs actually fell from the back of a truck and the truck just kept on going. if no one claims them they'll be put up for bacon -- i mean, for auction. auction, i misread that. >> pigs are very, very smart animals. i'm sure they're fully aware they were ditched on the highway. [ female announcer ] the counter. in most homes, it gets all the action. bring it. getting it clean again is easy with bounty. in this lab test, one sheet of bounty leaves this surface cleaner than 3 sheets of the bargain brand. ♪ why use more when you can use less? ♪ super durable, super absorbent, super clean. bounty. the one-sheet clean picker-upper.

well, if michelle obama has not convinced you to change the way you eat just yet, sheer a new study that just might. >> families that ate fresh food and reduced plastic saw a huge drop of hormone disrupting chemicals in their bodies. >> reporter: bpa is a common chemical. it can be in the plastic of a water bottle, the lining of a can, it may even be in the plastic container you put your leftovers in. we don't know what the effects are of all that bpa in our body,

but fears it could affect young children by messing with their hormone has led canada and european union to be used in things like baby bottles. still here in the u.s., bpa is all around us and inside of us. an estimated 93% of americans have detectable levels of bpa in their bodies. but this study offers some good news, suggesting we can rid ourselves of bpa by simply changing what we eat. researchers took five families, each with two adults and two kids and had them stop using canned foods and plastic goods for three days. replacing those items with fresh foods and snacks stored in glass containers. the result, the bpa levels among family members dropped on average 60%. when the families went back to eating the old ways, their bpa levels went back up. >> it means if people make intelligent choices about the foods they eat and the packaging in which they store their foods, they could really reduce their

exposure to synthetic chemicals in the environment. >> reporter: bpas are perfectly safe, approved by the fda to be in contact with food but researchers say if you're still worried, eat fresh food and store your snacks and leftovers in glass or stainless steel containers. we wanted to know how you can know if bpa is in an item orren. a lot of people think the recycling number on the bottom of an item tells you if there's bpa in it. it doesn't. the only way you can know for sure is if you call the manufacturer. this is a pretty good general rule. if it's crushable like this, it probably doesn't have bpa in it. sharyn alfonsi, abc news, new york. >> interesting, crush test. good to know. >> that is good to know. if you're wondering what foods you'll find this in we're talking about cans, plastic food wraps, and the cans is a big one. people don't think about that. >> you hear sometimes don't put can ic in the microwave and release chemicals.

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welcome back, everybody. to ipad or not to ipad, that's the question? with the recent unveiling of ipad 2, tablet computers are taking over the home computer world. the only question is when pcs will be a thing of the past and what tablet computer is best for you. joining me with help in answering the second question is andrea smith. as always, good to see you. you come bearing fun stuff as always here. the big thing, the ipad 2shgs the talk of the planet right now, of course. >> tablet mania. it is. i have to tell you, i'm so excited to have the ipad 2 here because i've been waiting to try it out and see if it's as wonderful and does all the things that it's supposed to do. you know what? it's fabulous. >> i was playing with it before

we went on the air. it really is good. >> it's thinner. it's lighter. it's faster. it is smart. it comes with a smart cover here that actually -- i just -- i was playing with this before. you just hold these together. it's got a magnet in it. the cover just sits on like this. >> nothing you have to hook or anything like that. literally, magnets do their thing and puts it to sleep. >> it's so cool, you rule it up on itself and it becomes a viewer. you just prop it up like this. >> oh, wow. okay. it has all kinds of functions. >> the thing about this is, you know, we've moved from -- a tablet was content consumption, watching video, e-mailing, we were doing social networking. but the ipad 2 has moved us into content creation. >> okay. >> we're doing things now. we've got these great apps. garage band here. >> i really like this one. it's for the aspiring musicians

in the world here who want to make their masterpiece. >> you just start playing. you can record music. you make your own stuff. we've got i movie on here because this has two cameras, a forward-facing camera and rear camera, shoots hd video. shoot your video. i movie on here as an app, make your own creation. >> the best upgrade from the original ipad to this one, what would you say is the number one newest factor in terms of making it better the original? >> the camera. the camera makes the difference. >> and runs for how much? >> exact same price as original ones were. >> not bad. with the buy bk and he just >> doesn't like it. >> he went with html 5. very geek speak but something he doesn't want on tablets. >> motorola made a different call. >> they have flash so you can watch web videos. this has a beautiful camera. i think the cameras on here are better than the ipad 2. >> really?

other things you say are better than the ipad? >> if you're an android person, some people just love that. if you have a droid phone, they have 200,000 apps in the android market so that's great. doesn't compare with the 350,000 apps ipad has, 65,000 native ipad apps. but they're getting there. >> very cool. the last thing, third runner-up here. >> coming up april 19th, rim announced the playbook. devote yees a devotees are waiting. available for preorder. that will play flash video, same price, same size. blackberry, they were worried there won't be enough apps

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he's dancing. >> he's dancing. you like that, jimmy. >> finally, so much buzz about prince william and kate middleton's wedding because it is providing a rare glimg inside that royal family. >> one of the perks of that life, a butler. what would it be like to make sure someone made sure have detail of your day goes just so. "gma's" josh elliott takes a lesson from the master. >> reporter: iron without irons. he places plates with precision and he knows how to lay your clothes out just so. christopher ealy, former footman of buckingham palace. here we call that a butler. what is that? >> jack of all treateds, master of them all. >> reporter: now he's teaching his trade at french culinary

school in new york. why ultimately should people know what it is you have to teach? >> on one hand you have allergies and hygiene side and the other side is why not go to bed somewhere that's nice to sleep? >> reporter: so, what are the secrets of a royal butler? use plenty of steam when ironing. >> get over the fact the buttons are in the way. put it on a towel. >> reporter: if you think a few passes with the iron will suffice, think again. he can take up to 12 minutes to iron a single shirt. felt like it took me that long just to do one sleeve. >> it's not going to bite. >> reporter: no, it's just going to burn. we moved on to setting the table. big rule -- don't smudge the stemware. >> cleanliness is another thing. nobody wants to sit down and see fingerprints on anything. >> reporter: i did okay. crystal clear. not a cloud in the sky right there.

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this morning on "world news now" -- dramatic defection. moammar gadhafi's foreign minister flees libya. >> his resignation and departure happens as american lawmakers consider sending money to help libya's rebels. it's thursday, march 31st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." and good morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> i'm peggy bunker. libya's opposition forces lost a big battle over a big

oil-producing territory. we'll investigate these rebels and see who's really behind them. >> big controversy whether we should send money -- >> or send weapons, right. also ahead, the whale at orlando's seaworld that drowned a trainer last year returns to the show. the big performance and as you can imagine the angry protests as well. big debate whether they should have that killer whale back. >> definitely brought a lot of attention to seaworld, that's for sure. coming up later, prince harry's big plunge into freezing arctic water. kaboom! look at him there. he looks good. >> nice suit. >> as he's training for his north pole trek. we'll have more information coming up. >> he's doing it for a good cause. >> he is. >> makes the cold bearable. >> good for harry. we begin with a blow to moammar gadhafi. one of his closest aides has now detected. libya's foreign minister musa kusa has arrived in britain saying he'll no longer work for

gadhafi. that of a fair chance. >> reporter: in that case the freedom fighters eventually became the taliban, al qaeda and other affiliated groups. something very much on the mind of white house officials as they debate arming the libyan opposition. what do we know about them? >> we don't know as much as we would like to know and as much as we expect we will know. >> reporter: official representatives seem credible to the white house but serious questions remain about who the rebels are on the ground, as acknowledged by nato's top commander. >> we have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al qaeda, hezbollah. we've seen different things. >> reporter: in fact, a 2007 west point study looked at foreign fighters who fought against the u.s. in iraq. 19% of them were from libya. the second most common country of origin. in the film version of charlie wilson's war, a cia agent uses a fable to warn wilson about the same unintended consequences white house officials are worrying about today. >> a little boy on his 14th boy

gets a horse. everybody in the village says, how wonderful the boy got a horse. the master says, we'll see. two years later the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg and everybody in the village says, how terrible. the master says, we'll see. then a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight except the boy can't because his leg is messed up and everybody in the village says, how wonderful. >> and the master says, we'll see. >> reporter: law of unintended consequences. white house has underlined that president obama has not made a decision yet about arming the libyan rebels. and there are reports this morning that cia operatives are already on the ground in libya. agency officers are said to have assisted in rescuing one of the two crew members of an f-15 that crashed last week. the cia helped safely recover the fighter jets weapons specialist first picked up by rebels. in texas this morning a gang-related shooting at a houston high school has killed

one person. several others were hurt when gunfire erupted during a powder puff football game last night. witnesses say a car drove onto the field and several people got out and started shooting. also in houston, the owner of a day care center where four children died in a fire has now been charged with murder. police say jessica tata was out shopping when the fatal fire broke out last month. she's scheduled to be arraigned on new murder charges this morning. turning to japan's nuclear crisis, new concerns this morning about the size of the so-called exclusion zone there. residents within 12 miles of that crippled plant have been told to evacuate. now the u.n.'s nuclear agency says substantially high levels of radiation have been detected about 25 miles from that facility. those levels are twice as high as the u.n.'s recommended level for evacuations. and also we're getting a first look at one of those robots the u.s. is sending to japan. as we mentioned earlier this week, the robots will enter areas of the fukushima plant that are considered simply too

dangerous for humans. this particular robot is actually commercially available for other purposes, but engineers at the idaho national laboratory are retro fitting it so it can take radiation readings. the catastrophe in japan has put a new focus on earthquake warning systems we have here in the united states. the biggest zone is around memphis, tennessee. experts say the city's old structures were built before current codes and they claim those buildings would never survive a powerful quake. ominously they say it's not a matter of if but when. >> if you look at haiti, chile, christchurch, and now japan, i think it would be the question, why are we not getting ready or prepared for earthquakes? >> we have a number of cities on the eastern seaboard that are at risk for major earthquakes, boston, new york city, charleston, south carolina. >> federal emergency officials are planning massive earthquake drills across the country.

the one in memphis is scheduled for next week. the hope is that the public will take these drills seriously. another big earthquake zone is out in california. at least one famous resident there is preparing for the worst. actor ashton kutcher has reportedly stocked up on $4,000 worth of survival goods in case a big one hits here. a source tells "in touch" magazine that his purchase from an l.a. surplus store includes everything from emergency blankets to hand-powered radios and, of course, those ready to eat meals. good to know what ashton kutcher is up to. >> i'm sure he tweeted all about it. it was a flawless performance by the world's most well-known killer whale. tilikum has returned to seaworld for the first time since the death of a trainer a year ago. matt gutman watched as the show unfolded. >> reporter: he has returned with a big splash, tilikum made his first public appearance at seaworld wednesday, 13 months after the whale killed a female trainer.

the violent incident happened minutes after this home video was recorded. tilikum grabbed trainer dawn brancheau's ponytail, pulling her until she drowned. >> jumped up and grabbed the trainer by the waist and started shaking her violently. >> reporter: turned out brancheau was the third human, tilikum, the largest whale in captivity, has killed. osha fined seaworld. tilikum may have returned to the pool but the show has noticeable changes. steel bars block the whales from the main stage and female trainers wore their hair in tight buns. seaworld says it's building these fast-raising false bottom floors capable of lifting whales and trainers out of the water in an emergency. that's not the point, say protesters outside the park. they say tilikum, or tili as he's known, should not be performing. >> we wish they would have

retired tili and all of the orca's to sea-side sanctuary. these massively intelligent animals don't deserve to live in bathtubs for you and i. >> reporter: right or wrong, his performance received thunderous applause. matt gutman, abc news, orlando. well, here's one story that prompted some hot debate in our news room this morning. a baby is crying at a tennis match in florida, so david ferrer of spain smacked a ball into the stands right towards the infant. while the ball didn't come close but the crying did stop. he later said the crying wasn't his problem. he said his poor play was due to indigestion. he did lose in straight sets. some people say it's terrible, other people were saying, why would you bring a baby to a tennis match? >> i'm with the latter. certain sports are quiet. >> like golf. >> he wasn't aiming for the kid -- he was aiming for the kid. >> jimmy. there you go. let's take a look at your thursday forecast.

windy with hail. heavy downpours with isolated tornadoes from miami to jacksonville stretching into the east coast. light snow from pittsburgh to new england. showers around little rock and memphis. snow showers in dakotas and rockies and heavy rain from seattle to portland. phoenix heats up to 94. colorado springs hovers near 80. 40 in fargo. 50 in omaha. a nice 75 in the big "d." 87 in miami. 47 in baltimore. >> the big "d"? >> dallas. >> everything's big, big hair, i see what you're saying. >> we love dallas. many people are focusing on rest, relaxation and retirement but an oregon man is ready to embark on the experience of a lifetime. >> james gronseth just did something he wanted to do for 50 years. at 84 years old he joined the peace corps. he is leaving for africa today, heading out on a 15-hour flight to botswana and he'll use his background in hospital administration to help patients there with hiv and aids.

a crippling problem in that country. >> good for him. that is very cool. by the time his two-year term is over, he may be the oldest person ever in the peace corps. the average age of volunteers is about 28. >> he can be the elder statesmen of the peace corps. >> making good use of his time. good for him. >> long, productive life. more "world news now" coming up.

six shots less than two seconds. and in the chaos, three men down, the gunman, 25-year-old john hinckley jr. subdued in a bristling pack of secret service agents. a crisis for a young, untested presidency. >> i, ronald reagan, do -- >> reporter: it was barely two months after his inauguration. the country was anxious, mired in recession, confronting a dangerous world. >> back to the white house, back to the white house, rawhide is okay. >> reporter: inside the limousine after the shooting, newly released secret service tapes show agent using code name for reagan radios good news, he seems to be unhurt.

46 seconds later with reagan coughing up a lot of blood in the backseat, parr switches course to the hospital. >> we're going to george washington fast. >> reporter: that decision saved reagan's life. the country held its breath and learned something about ronald reagan. because at the hospital, the stricken president, a bullet lodged an inch from his heart, in shock, with no discernible blood pressure, faced the moment with grace and humor. >> here he is on the operating room table, looked at me and says, i hope you all are republicans with a big smile on his face. >> reporter: that night after the three-hour surgery, nurse joanne bell remembers she had to gently tell the 70-year-old president to stop chatting away. >> i finally had to say to him, mr. president, in the most polite way that i can tell you, i want you to shut up and go to sleep. >> reporter: time passes and most of what a president does fades into the history books. but on that awful day 30 years ago, it wasn't what ronald reagan did that's so memorable,

it's who he was. terry moran, abc news. >> really incredible. no matter what you think of gun control, interesting number here, in the 30 years since james brady was shot, an estimated 2.8 million people have been killed or injured with guns in the united states. >> that is staggering. that says the whole story right there. when he went yesterday, brady himself had on a bracelet with gabby giffords' name on it. 30 years later -- we just went through this terrible tragedy in tucson. an issue today as much as then. >> well, coming up, we do have some information on a sexual harassment suit on a tv crime fighter. you don't want to miss this. it comes to a close. necessity settled. we have the juicy details. oprah has an offer for the donald. all coming up next in your skinny. ♪ skinny

so skinny ♪ time now for your "skinny." we've got juicy stories today. >> yes, indeed. >> starting out with a fellow that's been in the news for not so great behavior, especially for a married guy.

he is david boreanaz is who we're talking about. he has a show very appropriately called "bones." he apparently has this thing for an extra on the set of this series. >> extra, extra. >> extra, extra, indeed. her name is kristina hagan. now, she says he came on to her and was very overwhelmed with her on the set and really wanted to get to know her better. it all started when he said he could get her a regular role on the series if she hung out with him, gave him her personal information. you see a picture of her long-suffering wife, playboy play mate jaime bergman. he's admitted he cheated on her a couple times. the extras he sent very graphic picture of himself to her cell phone number and he just settled out of court to put the whole thing to bed, no pun intended. >> he pulled a brett favre and sent naughty pictures? >> some really naughty pictures, yes. he returns to the series "bones". we'll have to check that out. >> come on, dude, get it together. well, these two, you know, i don't know why we're talking about them today. i picked this because i find

them fascinating in a weird, bizarre kind of way. apparently paris hilton may have taken a little jab at her -- >> your girlfriend. >> kim kardashian. my favorites, my favorites. she said, quote, there's so many people out there who try to imitate what i do but i am the original, is what paris said. some people said that was a dig at her old bff, kim kardashian. both have had similar pasts. famous for being famous, sex tape scandals, reality shows, dabbles in the fashion world, both released pop songs, all these kind much things. and are not as close because kim gave a recent interview where she said, everyone comes into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. she was in my life for a long time but this comes a point in life where you grow apart and you're not as similar as you thought. >> kalgt cattiness. >> a little claw there. >> maybe it's that $65 million kardashian payday that set her off. >> that family is getting paid. >> doing very well. >> kim is fine and that's all i'm going to say about that. >> i have to listen to that all

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by. meanwhile, his brother harry is taking a leap of his own. he's actually far above the arctic circle with wounded soldier training for a charity hike to the north pole. our bob woodruff is with them. >> reporter: prince harry began his day along with his teammates putting on what is called an immersion survival suit and dove right through the ice, the coldest water imaginable. these suits are waterproof to protect them from hypothermia if they go in the arctic sea. along with the prince, i decided to try it myself. although i'm not heading to the north pole. prince, was i insane to do that? >> you tell me. >> reporter: he also trained far

away in the mountains, so we drove more than five miles by snowmobile in temperatures well below zero. but there they were, skiing down the hills together, preparing for his 200-mile trip to the north pole. this potentially dangerous walk with soldiers will take about 22 days to reach the north pole, but prince harry decided to join them now, not at the end, when his brother's wedding weighs him down. >> it didn't seem right to turn up to the last week and enjoy the glory with these guys. so i'd much rather go with them for the first week, send them on their way, get the banter out, then, yeah, jump on a plane and get back home. >> reporter: out here it is easy to keep his life separate from his fame, but at home, among the paparazzi, he rarely can. on this voyage he wants his teammates to just call him harry. you never use the word prince with them. >> no, no. >> reporter: just harry. >> exactly, yes, exactly. no prince, it's just harry. he's part of the jokes, the banter. it's really great, yeah. >> real quick, we have to let

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